When it’s over, Mello gently takes his hand and holds it, like they’re sweethearts. He seems startled by the ferocious look Matt gives him.

“What?”

“We’re in a hospital because you attacked me with a knife. What do you mean, what?”

“You’re still mad about that?” Mello frowns. He lifts Matt’s hand up and lays a little nuzzling kiss into his palm. The guy’s bipolar, or something—Matt would bet money on it.

I want a divorce, he thinks. We’ll split all the stuff. You can have the kids over on Mondays and Wednesdays, or something.

But all that he says is—

“I hate that I love you,” and he won’t say it again until the night before they kidnap Takada.